In their latest production entitled Follow
The Flow Pilottanzt was working with a text from Sam Melville, an American
humanrights acitvist, who died as an inmate during prisonriots in 1972.
In this text he reflects in a kind of poetic-philosophical way his environment
and the isolation of daily prison life.
The conclusion resulting of this extrem experience manifests itself as a possible
strategy of survival of an individual in the midst of an unpredictable community.
The movement language of the individual performers developed from the interpretation
of this text and allows multi-layered, minimal, absurd and poetic scenarios:
the dancers act next and against each other, a`together`develops out of little
insignificant distractions and mistakes; searching for personal expression,
they are getting lost in their own language, changing forms and getting back
in line again: falling out of the ordinary as an existential situation –
coming to terms with oneself.
„...in the indifferent brutality, incessant
noise, the experimental chemistry of food, the ravings of lost hysterical
men, i can act with clarity and meaning...“
Sam Melville, letter to his brother from May 16, 1970
Funded partially by City of Vienna
and Federal Chancellery Dept. For the Arts
in cooperation with: Szene Salzburg; Tanzwochen Dresden, Tanztage Posthof
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